McGregor v. Commonwealth

DUNCAN, Justice.

The appellant was convicted on a charge of false swearing and his punishment fixed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of two years.

The alleged false statements were contained in an affidavit for continuance filed by appellant in connection with an indictment pending against him in the Hopkins Circuit Court upon a charge of malicious shooting at without wounding. The affidavit, in the usual form, stated that an absent witness, Emmett Morgan, if present, would state in substance that he was present at the time of the alleged shooting and that affiant was merely…